When do you put up your Christmas tree :)

IrishGurll

I'm just wondering when other people put up there trees I put mine up on the 10th of November

Mr.Crinklewood

When it rains, or is that my umbrella I'm
thinking of??

leahyl

IrishGurll wrote: »

I'm just wondering when other people put up there trees I put mine up on the 10th of November

Omg 10th November :-O!! We put ours up up the night of the toyshow - I thought that was early!!

IrishGurll

leahyl wrote: »

Omg 10th November :-O!! We put ours up up the night of the toyshow - I thought that was early!!

Lol well we only started doing it 3 years ago because we just could not wait ! and plus you get to have all you're pretty decorations out longer hehe

Loughc

leahyl wrote: »

IrishGurll wrote: »

I'm just wondering when other people put up there trees I put mine up on the 10th of November

Omg 10th November :-O!! We put ours up up the night of the toyshow - I thought that was early!!

Usually the day of the toy show or night before. Going to be first year in my own place so I'll decide when to put it up. Will prob wait until the last week in November.

angel_wings

We put ours up around the 25th Nov.....love having it up for the Toy Show but couldnt face doing it that evening as its hectic enough getting dinners done and kids into their pjs to watch the show without the excitement (hassle) of putting a christmas tree up too! I just clean up, light fire, switch on tree lights and wer set :-)

Love2love

I put mine up the same day as the lights are switched on, on the Christmas tree in O'Connell Street, Dublin. We make a day of it, bring the kids to see Santa, go for dinner, see the lights ceremony (which is fantastic!!!!) then go home and put the tree up. Can't wait!

irishbarb

We normally put up ours like two weeks before Christmas, but I still live at home right now. When I get my own place, God only knows how early it'll be up, probably straight after Halloween :P

fishy fishy

put mine up around the weekend of the 8th december. That's time enough. By the time New Years Eve comes round I can't wait to take it down (usually new Years Day)

stargazer 68

Normally 15/16th Dec and whip it back down around 3rd Jan! But this year there will be NO TREE!! :eek::eek:

Going away for Xmas :D

Loughc

Dovies wrote: »

Normally 15/16th Dec and whip it back down around 3rd Jan! But this year there will be NO TREE!! :eek::eek:

Going away for Xmas :D

No christmas tree!! :eek:

Have you not seen Christmas with the Kranks?

FREE FROSTY!!!

stargazer 68

lockie1983 wrote: »

No christmas tree!! :eek:

Have you not seen Christmas with the Kranks?

FREE FROSTY!!!

Lol guess I had better watch that movie then!
Nope no tree - might put up a few bits just to make the house look occupied over the 'festive season'. But really can't be doing with arriving back on 5th jan and having to 'undecorate' and then washing my bikinis and shorts!

Broxi_Bear_Eire

Normally so it is all ready for the 8th December which also is our wedding anniversary

Posy

Generally the last Saturday in November.
This year I'm getting a new tree, I might get a fancy one with built-in lights to save the annual detangling nightmare!

leahyl

Dovies wrote: »

Going away for Xmas :D

:eek::eek: You're going away for Christmas???!! How COULD you?:(:pac:

mitosis

We go as a family to see the lights etc on Christmas Eve. While we are out the domestic staff put the tree in the hall and do the decorations. Always wonderful to return home to that!

mitosis

Dovies wrote: »

Normally 15/16th Dec and whip it back down around 3rd Jan! But this year there will be NO TREE!! :eek::eek:

Going away for Xmas :D

I'm pretty sure they allow a small tree in your cell. There'll certainly be a communal one on the landing.

stargazer 68

mitosis wrote: »

I'm pretty sure they allow a small tree in your cell. There'll certainly be a communal one on the landing.

Lol Busted!

Loughc

Posy wrote: »

This year I'm getting a new tree, I might get a fancy one with built-in lights to save the annual detangling nightmare!

Detangling is part of the fun of putting up the lights on the tree!!

Tonyandthewhale

The day before Christmas Eve usually, tends to come down again around the 2nd of January then.

Loughc

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

The day before Christmas Eve usually, tends to come down again around the 2nd of January then.

Bah humbug!

star-pants

Ours always went up after the 6th of December (that's one of my sisters' birthdays, and the reason)

Calibos

I think the December 24th-January 3rd brigade are in the wrong forum tbh. Did you guys mean to post in an Afterhours 'Bah Humbug' thread or something?

Mine us going up November 26th. Mother will be coming back from a 3 month visit to her Sister in Perth on the 27th and she asked if I could put up the decorations a few days early to take the sting out of coming home from 30 degree+ temperatures to 5 or 6.

That said, it's only about 4 or 5 days early for us as we are 1st December types.

ncmc

IrishGurll wrote: »

I'm just wondering when other people put up there trees I put mine up on the 10th of November

Wow, that is early! I think I put mine up on the 27th November last year, which was really early for me. I was away the following weekend, so it was either that or the 10th which I felt was too late. To be honest, I was a bit sick of the sight of it come Christmas, I think it took the specialness out of it or something. This year, it’s either the 1st or the 8th. Not sure which I’ll go for, the 8th feels very late especially since I go up home the weekend before Christmas for the holidays, so that would leave it up only 2 weeks. I am definitely in the take it down asap camp. I think I took it down new years day last year! Would hate the thought of it still being up when I returned to work.

IrishGurll

ncmc wrote: »

Wow, that is early! I think I put mine up on the 27th November last year, which was really early for me. I was away the following weekend, so it was either that or the 10th which I felt was too late. To be honest, I was a bit sick of the sight of it come Christmas, I think it took the specialness out of it or something. This year, it’s either the 1st or the 8th. Not sure which I’ll go for, the 8th feels very late especially since I go up home the weekend before Christmas for the holidays, so that would leave it up only 2 weeks. I am definitely in the take it down asap camp. I think I took it down new years day last year! Would hate the thought of it still being up when I returned to work.

I suppose it is quite early hehe , But me and my mam LOVE Christmas so much , It dosen't get old for us having our tree up that early it just makes it more fun + We have loads of time to add more decorations and stuff so I love doing it early , I hope you have a merry Christmas this year

suomi

When I lived at home we'd always put up the tree on Christmas Eve morning and me and my siblings would decorate it while watching Christmas movies on TV. But last Christmas was sort of my first Christmas living in my own place so I put up the tree a week before Christmas. We always have a real tree so we can't put it up very early or it'll die before Christmas.

juan.kerr

Next week, probably. Not sure how a real tree will survive for the 3 months until Little Christmas but shure we'll give it a try.

SusieBlue

We put ours up the morning of the Toy Show when I lived at home. Not sure when we'll put it up this year as its our first Christmas in our new place but the latest it'll go up is December 1st :pac:

Loughc

juan.kerr wrote: »

Next week, probably. Not sure how a real tree will survive for the 3 months until Little Christmas but shure we'll give it a try.

You're joking right? :eek:

I mean I'm a Christmas nut as much as the next nut here but putting your tree up in October, seems really really early!! :eek:

homersimpson

Will be the 7th or 8th of December this year

leahyl

homersimpson wrote: »

Will be the 7th or 8th of December this year

Didn't you have a picture of Homer with a Santa Hat as your avatar around the festive season last year?!:)

Squ

My wife's folks are real humbug cünts, (the only tree they have is one i got them, as the kids didnt understand how a house could not!), so i always make a point of putting ours up when they're up for the country shopping day. They go into town for the day, then stay in our gaff.

I fücking love going all out when they're there:), crimbo jumper, reindeer hairbands on the kids, bing crosby blasting out, two real trees.. One in the front room, and one in the back room. Enough fairy lights, that we dont have to turn on any other lights that time of year..




Its the little victories you have to savour

homersimpson

leahyl wrote: »

Didn't you have a picture of Homer with a Santa Hat as your avatar around the festive season last year?!:)

Nope I have always had this avatar

Could be http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=212453 you are thinking off??

Posy

Ooooh, your avatar is festive!

I'm dying to put a santa hat on my avatar girl when Halloween is over.

Deedsie

Toy Show is on November 30th this year. Is that too early to put up the tree? It'll be the first artificial tree in my parents house!

juan.kerr

lockie1983 wrote: »

You're joking right? :eek:

I mean I'm a Christmas nut as much as the next nut here but putting your tree up in October, seems really really early!! :eek:

Apologies, I was being facetious.

We get real trees, so I usually prefer to put it up a week before Christmas but will try to buy it earlier and leave in the garage. Depends on the selection available.

I left getting my own tree too late last year and the selection was rubbish so I ended up not putting one up in my apartment (I wasn't spending Christmas there so it wasn't as miserable as it sounds).

I got a massive one for my parents house the year before last, probably the best tree they ever had.

juan.kerr

lockie1983 wrote: »

You're joking right? :eek:

I mean I'm a Christmas nut as much as the next nut here but putting your tree up in October, seems really really early!! :eek:

Apologies, I was being facetious.

We get real trees, so I usually prefer to put it up a week before Christmas but will try to buy it earlier and leave in the garage. Depends on the selection available.

I left getting my own tree too late last year and the selection was rubbish so I ended up not putting one up in my apartment (I wasn't spending Christmas there so it wasn't as miserable as it sounds).

I got a massive tree for my parents house the year before last, probably the best tree they ever had.

Whatsernamex33

8th of December every year, the tree gets put up and house decorated. I couldn't have it any earlier or later. Just been that date for as long as I remember.

Heroditas

Usually the Sunday two weeks before Christmas - so the 9th this year.

FoxyChickaTee

I think its nice to have the tree up when the toy show is on its my first time putting a tree up myself this year :-D

Pumpkinseeds

Ah yes, the age old nighmare of the lights. We wind them around cardboard rolls each year, it helps when putting them up, doesn't solve the blown/loose bulb hunt. My husband usually deals with the lights. I usually prepare him for it with a glass of whisky or brandy, just to take the edge off the stress:D

clappyhappy

Always the 1st of Dec, then down on Jan 1st/2nd. But reading this thread I might put them up for the toy show, kids getting older now (8,5 &3) where they can stay up and watch it, would make it really festive for them. Think I will surprise them when they get home from school that day

Munstermissy

The 1st of Never, yes bah humbug. I don't bother with a tree or decorations and haven't for the last 8 years. I'm normally away with family in the US for Christmas and don't bother anymore.

Sar_Bear

The day it should be put up, 8th of December, and it comes down on the 6th of January.

star-pants

No "bah humbugs" in here please

Loughc

clappyhappy wrote: »

Always the 1st of Dec, then down on Jan 1st/2nd. But reading this thread I might put them up for the toy show, kids getting older now (8,5 &3) where they can stay up and watch it, would make it really festive for them. Think I will surprise them when they get home from school that day

Such a lovely idea!!! That would be such an amazing surprise for them!

fishy fishy

clappyhappy wrote: »

Always the 1st of Dec, then down on Jan 1st/2nd. But reading this thread I might put them up for the toy show, kids getting older now (8,5 &3) where they can stay up and watch it, would make it really festive for them. Think I will surprise them when they get home from school that day

you mean surprise them by getting them to do the christmas tree I hope, and not have it all done yourself before they get home. okay they might be messy but you can fix it afterwards, but it's lovely watching them put the decorations up on the tree - I have fond and treasured memories of my own kids doing it and having to go over it again that night.

fishy fishy

Munstermissy wrote: »

The 1st of Never, yes bah humbug. I don't bother with a tree or decorations and haven't for the last 8 years. I'm normally away with family in the US for Christmas and don't bother anymore.

I'm so glad that we don't do Christmas like they do in America. They have all the atmosphere from Thanksgiving up until Christmas eve - they go over the top on everything. But Christmas eve is just a normal day to them - they work all day as usual. Christmas Day sees a lot of the shops open as usual, and the day after Christmas is straight back to work (ST. Stephens Day) and you will see the Christmas trees thrown out on the day after christmas. Also because they have turkey on Thanksgiving, they don't usually have it for Christmas - they have ham instead. Thank goodness we draw out Christmas for as long as we possibly can. :D

FoxyChickaTee

I always loved the surprise of coming home after school and seeing the christmas lights on in our front window!! Oh the excitement!!

cookie75

Normally the first sunday of December (but if that goes past the 5th ,last sunday of november !!) Never realised people liked to have it up for the toy show putting ideas in my head now!!

sassa

I always put the tree and decorations up the day the toy show is on. I get my mam to collect the kids from school and bring them to her house until about 4 or 5 and then put up the decorations and lights around the room and windows and put the tree up then they come home to nearly everything done and put the decorations on the tree. We get a takeaway sit down to eat it in the sitting room with the fire blazing then have hot choc and cookies when the toy show comes on. It's probably my favourite part of the run up to Christmas.